Soniah Kamal

Soniah Kamal is a
Pushcart Prize nominated essayist and fiction writer. Her novel 'UnMarriageable:
Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan is forthcoming. Her debut
novel An Isolated Incident was a finalist for the Townsend
Award for Fiction, the KLF French Fiction Prize, and is an Amazon Rising Star
pick. Soniah's TEDx talk, Redreaming Your Dream, is about
regrets, second chances and redemption. Her work has appeared in numerous
publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Catapult, The
Normal School, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Missing Slate, BuzzFeed, The
Huffington Post, The James Dickey Review, Scroll.in, Literary Hub, and
has been widely anthologized. Soniah was born in Pakistan, grew up
in England and Saudi Arabia and currently resides in the U.S.

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